Doug Melvin Quotes on Decision Making (5 Quotes)

I want our doctors to look at him back home. After they evaluate him, we'll make a decision. If they don't think he'll be able to pitch in another week, we'll probably have to DL him and call up a long reliever.

I went to our professional scouting staff and said we're trading Kolb, find someone to replace him. We challenge them they evaluate talent and make decisions.

We made the decision that we're going to have our pitchers hit. I talked to Ned, and he wants our pitchers to hit this spring. We need to get them the work.

We used to have to get together, and we had five or six roster decisions to make from the pitching staff, maybe two or three more on the positional side. And this year, I think we're a little more set with our team. There'll probably just be one or two decisions down the stretch. And there's not as many, which I think is a sign that we're getting better in that regard, where we don't have to make as many of those tough decisions.

When we get down there and get in person, we'll meet with Ben, sit down with him, the trainer and Mike Maddux and make that decision. We feel that we'll all make a good judgment including Ben.